"Joyful Learning" in Rural Indian Primary Schools: An Analysis of Social Control in the Context of Child-Centred Discourses

Autor/in	Sriprakash, Arathi
Titel	"Joyful Learning" in Rural Indian Primary Schools: An Analysis of Social Control in the Context of Child-Centred Discourses
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 39 (2009) 5, S.629-641 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
Schlagwörter	Classroom Techniques; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Elementary Education; Curriculum Evaluation; Student Centered Curriculum; Educational Strategies; Rural Schools; Classroom Observation Techniques; Interviews; Social Influences; Educational Change; Politics of Education; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Klassenführung; Ausland; Elementarunterricht; Curriculum; Evaluation; Curriculumevaluation; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Evaluierung; Lehrstrategie; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sozialer Einfluss; Bildungsreform; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Indien
Abstract	Efforts to improve the "quality" of education for all in government primary schools in India have seen a shift towards child-centred teaching. This paper examines the "Joyful Learning" programme, an example of a pedagogic reform implemented in rural primary schools in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Through an empirical analysis of teachers' pedagogic discourses, I explore what it means to introduce child-centred pedagogic principles in low-income, rural Indian contexts. Of particular interest to this paper is how new forms of pedagogic control in child-centred approaches might be understood and mediated by teachers. The analysis reveals how the social controls of knowledge acquisition can remain unchallenged, and hidden, by the rhetoric of this child-centred pedagogy. The discussions reflect on the need for more complex and contextual considerations of pedagogy in attempts to achieve "quality" universal education. (Contains 1 table and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10